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Drug Benefit Plans Driven by Short-Term Savings Could Be More Costly in the End
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Dec. 20, 2007
Excerpt: Given the burgeoning demand for prescription drugs and the consequent efforts to rein in their costs, we undertook a systematic review of the published literature on how the salient cost-sharing features might affect drug access, medical spending, and health outcomes. We found several reasons for concern, based on 132 studies published in English between 1985 and 2006 on the effects of drug cost sharing in Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United States, and Taiwan.

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